Violence against women
This is the first conviction since the govt this week introduced the death penalty for rape.
Updated 16 Oct, 2020 08:49am
The MeToo movement has had little effect in remote, rural areas of India where sex crimes are rife.
Published 14 Oct, 2020 10:30pm
Time and again, the district has come into the spotlight for cases of abuse, rape and killings of children.
Published 14 Oct, 2020 07:38pm
Sources say the suspect's DNA test has been conducted three times and the results matched with the victim's samples.
Updated 13 Oct, 2020 08:31am
Abid Malhi's arrest comes a month after the incident took place.
Updated 13 Oct, 2020 08:29am
Shaheer Ali says he and a female friend were followed by a group of men trying to force them out of the car inside KU.
Updated 09 Oct, 2020 08:42am
Victim's father says his daughter was being harassed by the suspect for the last two years.
Published 07 Oct, 2020 08:03pm
UP CM announces that the victim’s family, the accused and the suspended policemen will all undergo lie-detector and drug tests.
Updated 04 Oct, 2020 10:21am
According to the FIR, Shazia's husband and others brutally tortured her when she demanded meal for herself and her children.
Updated 04 Oct, 2020 11:27am
Says govt has set up protection centres and a 24-hour helpline for providing free legal advice to women.
Updated 03 Oct, 2020 08:53am
Protesters accuse authorities of trying to hush up the crime, preventing access to the victim's family.
Published 02 Oct, 2020 08:48pm
Rights activists demand action against the suspects who pushed the victim to take her own life.
Updated 01 Oct, 2020 03:07am
Anger over the incident has increased by accusations that police cremated the victim's body against her family's wishes.
Updated 30 Sep, 2020 05:24pm
It is unacceptable that an official who blatantly and repeatedly fuels rape culture is tasked with solving the motorway case.
Published 30 Sep, 2020 10:00am
Senate human rights committee reprimands CCPO for giving his "personal opinions" instead of stating facts.
Published 28 Sep, 2020 08:02pm
One of the victims died on the spot while the other is in critical condition.
Updated 27 Sep, 2020 06:49pm
The experience of all nations shows that severe penalties do not cause a decline in crime.
Published 24 Sep, 2020 08:44am
The victim was returning home after work when she was abducted by two men.
Updated 23 Sep, 2020 10:53am
The victim's father, uncle and cousin strangled her after finding her talking to a friend on her mobile phone.
Updated 23 Sep, 2020 10:40am
Inquiry launched after ‘conflicting statements’ of woman.
Updated 22 Sep, 2020 10:57am
There are sufficient laws to tackle the offences of rape, gang rape and child sexual abuse but they are not being implemented.
Updated 23 Sep, 2020 09:57am
Husband alleges he reported matter to police but they insisted on omitting the gang-rape allegation from the report.
Updated 21 Sep, 2020 01:09pm
Abid Malhi's wife was taken into custody by law enforcement agencies last night.
Updated 18 Sep, 2020 01:56am
Okara DPO says female officers will be posted to check violence against women in the district.
Updated 17 Sep, 2020 10:55am
Judge directs police to hold identity parade of the suspect as soon as possible.
Updated 16 Sep, 2020 08:21am
Women lawyers, women activists and women police officers were conspicuous by their absence on the channels.
Published 15 Sep, 2020 10:10am
PM says govt was informed public hangings of rapists would not be "internationally acceptable".
Updated 15 Sep, 2020 11:27am
Judicial inquiry sought into the incident.
Updated 13 Sep, 2020 09:06am
IGP names primary suspect as Abid Ali, a resident of Fort Abbas in Bahawalnagar, and his accomplice as Waqarul Hassan.
Updated 13 Sep, 2020 08:07am
It is not enough for individual members of the government to condemn the act.
Updated 12 Sep, 2020 08:44am
